Conference on Emerging Technologies in Accounting and Financial Economics


University of Southern California Marshall School of Business

September 12-13, 2025 | Note that conference rooms are different for each day (click on this map for locations).

* Both locations are a short walk from the conference hotel.

Conference Program

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Friday Sept 12 2025

Conference Check-in and Continental Breakfast

7:45 am: Conference Check-in and Continental Breakfast - Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) Room 450 (see this map)

Welcome Remarks

8:20 am: Welcome Remarks -- Jerry Hoberg & Lorien Stice-Lawrence

Session 1: TJ Wong (USC) Presiding

Coffee Break

10:00 - 10:30 am: Coffee Break

Session 2: Jarrad Harford (University of Washington) Presiding

Lunch

12:00 - 1:00 pm: Lunch - TCC 450 (Same Room)

Session 3: David Hirshleifer (USC) Presiding

  • 1:00 - 1:45 pm: "Industry Panel: Discussion of AI in Practice"
    Moderators: Ben Miao-Zhang (USC) and Lorien Stice-Lawrence (USC)
    Panelists: Jay Ghiya (Oaktree Capital), Ben Zweig (Revelio Labs), Shane Oka (Cornerstone Research)
  • 1:45 - 2:30 pm: "Representations of Investor Beliefs"
    Presenter: Bradford Levy (University of Chicago)
    Discussant: Lin Peng (Baruch University)

Coffee Break

2:30 - 3:00 pm: Coffee Break

Session 4: Jackie Wegner (USC) Presiding

  • 3:00 - 3:45 pm: "Fighting Climate Change with FinTech"
    Presenter: Alberto Rossi (Georgetown University)
    Discussant: Jung Ho Choi (Stanford University)
  • 3:45 - 4:30 pm: Keynote Address
    Professor Lauren Cohen
    L.E. Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School

Break

4:30 - 5:00 pm: Break (start walk to University Club at 4:50 pm)

Pre-Dinner Reception

5:00 - 5:45 pm: Predinner Reception - Amy King Dundon-Berchtold University Club of USC - Patio (see this map)

Dinner

5:45 pm: Dinner - Amy King Dundon-Berchtold University Club of USC - Scriptorium Room (see this map)

Evening Entertainment

8:00 pm to 9:00pm (optional): Comedy Show at Nature's Brew - 2316 S Union Ave (20 minute walk) (drinks available for purchase)

Saturday Sept 13 2025

Conference Check-in and Continental Breakfast

7:45 am: Conference Check-in and Continental Breakfast - Location: Popovich Hall (JKP) Room 112 (see this map)

Session 5: Arthur Korteweg (USC) Presiding

Coffee Break

9:45 - 10:15 am: Coffee Break

Session 6: Siew Hong Teoh (UCLA) Presiding

Closing Remarks

11:30 am: Closing Remarks

Box Lunch

11:40 am: Box Lunch - pick up in Popovich Hall (enjoy courtyard!)

Conference Details

Conference Organizers

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Examples of Emerging Technologies Explored in CETAFE

  • AI
  • Large language models
  • Big Data
  • Blockchain
  • Algorithmic trading
  • Social media or social networks
  • Peer-to-peer lending, crowdsourcing & microfinance
  • Agent-based modeling
  • Mobile payment systems
  • Financial aggregators
  • Prediction Markets
  • Robo-advising
  • Satellite imaging and cellphone signals
  • Geolocation
  • FinTech Intermediaries (e.g. RobinHood)
  • Quantum computing
  • Machine learning
  • Voice or facial recognition
  • Crowdsourcing (e.g., Mechanical Turk for data collection)
  • Internet records (e.g., Google, EDGAR web-search data)
  • Valuation of human capital or intellectual capital
  • Innovative novel data new to the literature
  • Novel network settings or spatial models
  • Any other new technologies not listed!

Sponsors

  • The Institute for Outlier Research in Business
  • Marshall School of Business (Finance and Business Economics Department)
  • Leventhal School of Accounting
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